Research Catalog

Title

Emigration and the labouring poor : Australian recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60 / Robin F. Haine.

Author

Haines, Robin F.

Publication

Houndmills : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Description

xvi, 397 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Immigrants > Australia > History > 19th century
• British > Australia > History > 19th century
• Australia > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Context -- 2. Who Were Australia's Government-Assisted Emigrants? -- 3. Recruiting in the Countryside -- 4. English Poor Law Recruitment -- 5. Irish Poor Law Recruitment -- 6. Promotion: Philanthropy, Commerce, and Colonization -- 7. Experiments in Charitable Cooperation -- 8. Scottish Recruitment: The Highland and Island Emigration Society -- 9. 'Noughting will give me more plesure than to send for you' -- App. 1. Total immigration from the United Kingdom, 1821-1900 -- App. 2. Government-assisted immigration from the United Kingdom, 1831-1900 -- App. 3.1. Percentage of Immigrants from the United Kingdom who were government-assisted, 1821-1900 -- App. 3.2. Percentage of Immigrants from the United Kingdom who were government-assisted, by colony, 1821-1900. Sources to Appendices 1-3 -- App. 4. Agencies, schemes, and a glossary of terms for each colony, 1831-60 -- App. 5. Industrial classification of male occupations -- App. 6. Social classification of male and female occupations.

ISBN

• 0333660498
• 0312174691 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^97009156^

OCLC

228670644

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library